Bishop Erik Varden closed a weeklong retreat for the Roman Curia with meditations on the Cross and hope. Pope Leo XIV closed the Vatican’s weeklong Lenten spiritual exercises Friday by thanking retreat preacher Bishop Erik […]
Bishops from the Texas-Mexico border region met to discuss their role on both sides of the border, as well as the recent wave of violence in Mexico. A group of bishops from the Texas-Mexico border […]
Entrepreneur Raj Peter Bhakta said he seeks a Catholic nonprofit to apply by March 31 to “revive” the former campus of Green Mountain College for “future generations of the Catholic Church.” The owner of a […]
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is asking the Supreme Court to uphold birthright citizenship. However, not all Catholics agree with this interpretation of Church social teaching. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has […]
El Salvador passed a Foreign Agents Law requiring NGOs with foreign backing to register as such. Faced with that obligation, an abortion advocacy group decided to dissolve rather than register. The Citizens’ Group for the […]
The number of college-educated Catholics falls in line with the overall share of U.S. adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher, the report said. The Pew Research Center released a report examining religious groups’ levels […]
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom similarly called for the State Department to pressure Turkey over its treatment of Christians in 2025. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is urging the State […]
The stamp features the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Kyiv. A new Vatican stamp issue honoring Ukrainian Catholics marks three major milestones for the Catholic Church in Ukraine, even as […]
February 27th is the feast day of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. The Passionist saint was born in Assisi, Italy, on March 1, 1838, and baptized Francesco Possenti on the same day, not […]
I was rather disappointed in the recent State of the Union address, but not for the reasons many readers might think. I believe that most Americans watched it the way one watches a meticulously overproduced […]
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